The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-08-31
THE SEVEN KILLED CITY.
NEWS AND NOTES OF LIFE AND CROPS
THEREABoUT.
wadinG Swa'ie:t S!rearns---Ihick.
ens Hiding Gut.-.Girent Religious
Revival at BELLS Chapel --- What
wos Found in IL We'll.
LowSDEsvIL.LE, =. c., Angus

Was Found In well.
LowSDEsvILLE, =. c., August %, 1857.
4 regular downpour last Friday.
Some of the smaller streams higher than
they have heen for some time.
We have had splendid time for sowing
lurnip iced.
Pnters and potatoes have enjoyed greatly
the past few weeks.
Mr.. X. \. Mcconnell went TO Augusta last
Wednesday on business returned on Friday.
The big rains seem to have demolished al
most every thing. For three weeks 1t has been
difficult for our merchants to keep supplies
equal to the demand.
DIR. NJ. f. Game, who has been the pharma-
cst in Mr. j. II. Franks drug store Tor some
time, left here last Friday for Abbeyilie Z. H.,
where he takes position In Mr.. p. B. Speeds
Mr. Mattison, who has been in business for
some time at Abbcvlle, now fills the place
lately vacated by DR.. Game
Rev. w. $. Martin went to- AlcGormick last
Monday to assist Reyy j. c. Chandler In APR pro.
quite Sci-nOw better.
Dr.. \. ]. Spccr lost very good horse the
Mrs Eugene Heard and Mrs. Thos. Swift, of
Elbcrton, Ga, came over last Friday and
spent the day and night at Mr.. #. Bakers.
shipped with the Prcsbyterians on yesterday.
l do not know whether Frank is sill railroad
inspector or not.
Miss Kate Loinax has spent several days of
DR.. Speer's.
Our horse mail has almost passed into for
gettulncss. Its headQuarlers being at Elber-
ton, 1t has been over but one time in about
three weeks.
church closed yesterday. The Rev II. c. Fen
mel, who assisted the pastor, Rev. Il. G. Ligon,
gave us very interesting sermon on yester-
day.
Miss jamie I.omaX. who has been absent
from home for some time, is now visiting the
family OF her bSother, Mr.. John e. LomaX, In
this place.
The big meeting at Bells chapel is still 60
ing on. Much good has been done there. A
new church has been formed with about one
hundred members; many have just joined
and many professed conversion. 1t was
thought that the meeting would close last Fri,
day. That evening this scribe accompanied
q friend to his home. While we were sitting
on the piazza some rather small fryS came
from under the house, our friend remarked TO
the chick ems "you better hide out, the meet
ing amt over yet"
Not great while ago, one friend visited an
other, where there was green corn for dinner.
"Iayed in" 4 pretty good supply. The visitor
was somewhat startled. and nonplussed to
hear his host order one Of the servants to
bring in two or three bundles of fodder.
East End, Ninety-SiX, in last weeks Press
an d Banner says that every man, woman and
shild who can possibly do so, attends some
one of the churches In that place. II the same
could be said Of our little town the following
try citizens asked another, why he did not
move TO LowndcSville. He replied, mo, Zur.
Ise lived dare wunce, and don't want TO go
back dare no more. Dc debble has bill Zale
dat place, and Ise feared he might loreclose 1t
an git me, so stay way"
A few days ago citizens well was
cleaned ota, the first time In thiriy-niDe years,
and II can be Imagined the rubbish that had
collected there In all those years, consisting in
part OF dry goods, hardware, crockery ware,
tlnware, etc., sufficient TO stn!t right smart
cross. road, "cotton trap" lumber enough per-
haps To incline some one to start q lumber
yard, and reptiles, frogs; lizards, snakes, &C.,
enough for q nucleus around which TO build
geological garden. and 10 cap the whole, two
bottles OF whiskey, with the whiSkcy leaked
out.
The waters seem not to be as accommoda-
ting to our denitares as those waters were
that we read about, which divided for those
fleeing thousands. Last Friday evening Judge
VIM. Moore walked over to the depot. While
there q second class water spout flooded this
whole section. After 1t was over, the Judge
made for home, arrived at the creek he found
it from hill to hill. Whether he commanded
the waters to divide or not, "thiS deponent
saith not" They didn't do 1t al! the same,
and he not 10 be outdone by so slight an I'M
pediment as Il swollen stream waded H..
(about waist deep and across. Do not know
whether his dry goods got wet or not, but The
opinion OF this writer is, that Judge ought
to have "mother witt enough about him to
put "his duds" above high water mark: